Category: history
Showing 1-20 of 88
May Bird and the Ever After
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Scholastic:
Seller ID: 9780545003377
ISBN: 0545003377
Condition: GOOD
Fever 1793 (The Seeds of America Trilogy)
Price: $3.50
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers:
Seller ID: 9780689848919
ISBN: 0689848919
Condition: GOOD
During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out. Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie's world upside down. At her feverish mother's insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic with disease... View more info
The First Woman Doctor (Scholastic Biography)
By: "Baker, Rachel"
Price: $1.60
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks:
Seller ID: 9780590447676
ISBN: 059044767X
Condition: GOOD
Only Earth and Sky Last Forever
Price: $2.45
Publisher: Harper Collins:
Seller ID: 9780064400497
ISBN: 0064400492
Condition: GOOD
The Shakespeare Stealer
Price: $3.50
Publisher: Puffin:
Seller ID: 9780141305950
ISBN: 0141305959
Condition: GOOD
Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform. As full of twists and turns as a London alleyway, this entertaining novel is rich in period details, colorful characters, villainy, and drama. "A fast-moving historical novel that introduces an important era with casual familiarity." --School Library Journal, starred review View more info
Tennyson
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Yearling:
Seller ID: 9780440240617
ISBN: 0440240611
Condition: GOOD
""Brilliant, unusual writing."--"Chicago Tribune On the banks of the Mississippi River, Tennyson Fontaine and her sister, Hattie, play endless games of hide-and-seek and make up fantastical stories about the latest adventures of their wild dog, Jos. But when their mother doesn't come home and their father sets off to find her, the sisters are whisked away to Aigredoux, the once-grand plantation of their ancestors, now in ruin. Caught in a strange web of time, dreams, and history, Tennyson comes up with a plan to shine light on Aigredoux's past and bring her mother home. But like so man... View more info
The Big Wave
By: "Buck, Pearl S"
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Scholastic Inc:
Seller ID: 9780439156103
ISBN: 0439156106
Condition: GOOD
A Lion to Guard Us
Price: $2.50
Publisher: HarperCollins:
Seller ID: 9780064403337
ISBN: 0064403335
Condition: GOOD
Amanda Freebold doesn't know what to do. Her father left three years ago for the new colony of Jamestown, in America, thousands of miles away. All Amanda has to remember him by is a little brass lion's head he gave his family to guard them while he is gone. Now her mother has just died, leaving Amanda to take care of her younger brother and sister.As head of the family, Amanda finally decides to take her brother and sister to America to find Father. The ocean crossing is long and hard, and the children don't know whom to trust. But with the lion's head to guard them, Amanda Knows that so... View more info
Stealing Freedom
By: "Carbone, Elisa"
Price: $3.50
Publisher: Yearling:
Seller ID: 9780440417071
ISBN: 0440417074
Condition: GOOD
"Inspired by a true story, the riveting novel of a young slave girl's harrowing escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad." The moment Ann Maria Weems was born, her freedom was stolen from her. Like her family and the other slaves on the farm, Ann works from sunup to sundown and obeys the orders of her master. Then one day, Ann's family -- the only joy she knows -- is gone. Just 12 years old, Ann is overcome by grief, struggling to get through each day. And her only hope of stealing back her freedom and finding her family lies in a perilous journey: the Underground Railroad. Ann Ma... View more info
Freedom Crossing (Apple Paperbacks)
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks:
Seller ID: 9780590445696
ISBN: 0590445693
Condition: GOOD
Laura Eastman returns to New York after living in the South with relatives for four years to discover that her brother and father are part of the Underground Railroad, helping fugitive slaves to escape to Canada. When a friend brings a runaway slave, Martin, to the house while her father and stepmother are away, Laura must decide what she believes -- and whether she should help Martin escape. View more info
War Comes to Willy Freeman (Arabus Family Saga)
By: "Collier, James"
Price: $1.75
Publisher: Yearling:
Seller ID: 9780440495048
ISBN: 0440495040
Condition: GOOD
My Daniel
By: "Conrad, Pam"
Price: $2.00
Publisher: HarperCollins:
Seller ID: 9780064403092
ISBN: 0064403092
Condition: GOOD
"All I want to find is one dinosaur," Daniel was saying. "And I'll find it right here. Like I do all my fossils." Wandering through the Natural History Museum with her grandchildren, Julia Creath feels the presence of her dead brother, Daniel, she remembers a time when fossil fever hit everyone, old and young -- a time when people would kill for those old bones under the ground. Julia becomes the Nebraska farm girl she once was, as she weaves together the story of the great dinosaur rush -- an adventurous tale of love and treachery, but most of all the story of her own childhood, and of the... View more info
"Bud, Not Buddy"
By: "Curtis, Christopher Paul"
Price: $1.50
Publisher: Scholastic Trade:
Seller ID: 9780439402002
ISBN: 043940200X
Condition: GOOD
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan, and when 10-year-old Bud decides to hit the road to find his father, nothing can stop him. "From the Trade Paperback edition." View more info
Elijah of Buxton
By: "Curtis, Christopher Paul"
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Scholastic:
Seller ID: 9780545104739
ISBN: 0545104734
Condition: GOOD
Matilda Bone
By: "Cushman, Karen"
Price: $3.50
Publisher: Yearling:
Seller ID: 9780440418221
ISBN: 0440418224
Condition: GOOD
The Courage of Sarah Noble
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Aladdin:
Seller ID: 9780689715402
ISBN: 0689715404
Condition: GOOD
In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new home for their family. "Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble," her mother had said, but Sarah found that it was not always easy to feel brave inside. The dark woods were full of animals and Indians, too, and Sarah was only eight The true story of Sarah's journey is inspiring. And as she cares for her father and befriends her Indian neighbors, she learns that to be afraid and to be brave is the greatest courage of all. View more info
Morning Girl
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.:
Seller ID: 9780439140607
ISBN: 0439140609
Condition: GOOD
The Broken Blade
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Yearling:
Seller ID: 9780440411840
ISBN: 044041184X
Condition: GOOD
The Slave Dancer
By: "Fox, Paula"
Price: $3.25
Publisher: Yearling:
Seller ID: 9780440404026
ISBN: 0440404029
Condition: GOOD
Snatched from the docks of New Orleans, 13-year-old Jessie is thrown aboard a slave ship where he is sickened by the horrible practices of the slave business. But they are nothing compared to the one final horror that Jessie will witness. Can the cruelty be stopped before it's too late? View more info